Rover Park

24-25-26 Jan 2004

Arriving at the park camp ground just before 9am Friday and being greeted by Hans & Heidi the owners, I had just enough time to pick my spot before 4 more of our cars rolled in from camping just down the road a bit. With everyone setup we went for a short drive to see the waterfall before lunch and with all the recent rain the falls were flowing quite well, the best I have seen it. After lunch we went for a drive up to the copper-mine/gold-mine and the processing plant and on our way back to camp we came past the comp area with the organisers and a couple of competitors having a look at the course which had plenty of water flowing over half of it.

Back at camp Ian Knabel had arrived and setup so before the rush some people had early showers and just before dark Dieter and Stewie arrived and after parking his caravan it started to rain, actually a storm, the first for the weekend. Saturday morning we went over to the comp area to watch and with what they put those through they can have it. Back to camp for a late lunch and as it was too wet to drive a lazy afternoon went down well.

Matthew & Luke rocked up too late for tea that arvo so had to feed themselves and with arriving it gave us 12 cars all up. Saturday night another storm but not enough to stop Sundays comp which some of us went over to watch while others went for a drive into Tenterfield for a look around and a day out as the tracks were too wet to drive.

After lunch on Sunday 4 cars went for a drive down to see the beach but the track down to it was rather slippery with some cars in front of us getting into all sorts of trouble so we parked the cars and walked down to the car park and down to the beach, which due to all the rain they have had was under water and the gorge was running well.

On our way we had some fun of our own with Ian getting bogged and then Stewie in the same spot. Monday morning while most were slowly packing Matthew and myself went out to put up a couple of signs and had a bit of a drive around but it was still to wet so back to camp, have a bite for lunch and slowly pack up and we were the last of our group to leave at about 1pm, ready for the 4 hour trip home. Thanks to all who came down and as you all said you enjoyed the place, another trip later on in the dry to see more of the place will be on. By the way they reckon there were about 265 cars there.

Until next time.

Merv